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Women in a Medieval Heretical Sect: Agnes and Huguette the Waldensians. By Shulamith Shahar. Translated by Yael Lotan. (Rochester, New York: The Boydell Press. 2001. Pp. xix, 184. $60.00.)
On Tuesday, May 1, 1320, Raymond de la Cote and Agnes Franco were, after nine months of interrogation and imprisonment by the bishop-inquisitor of Pamiers, Jacques Fournier, burnt as heretical Waldensians. Sixteen months later on Thursday, August 2, 1321, Huguette de la Cote and her husband, Jean of Vienne, were, after two years of questioning and confinement by the same inquisition, also burnt as Waldensian heretics. The testimonies of these four Waldensians, these Poor of Lyon, survive with 110 other confessions from Jacques Fournier's inquisition into heretical depravity in some small Pyrenean villages (most famously Montaillou) in MS lat. 4030 in the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Jean Duvernoy edited this manuscript in three volumes in 1965 (with corrections...